linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3, RFC 09/34] thp: represent file thp pages in meminfo and friends

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Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:11:26 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3, RFC 09/34] thp: represent file thp pages in meminfo
 and friends

On 04/16/2013 07:49 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 04/05/2013 04:59 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> The patch adds new zone stat to count file transparent huge pages and
>>> adjust related places.
>>>
>>> For now we don't count mapped or dirty file thp pages separately.
>>
>> I can understand tracking NR_FILE_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES itself.  But,
>> why not also account for them in NR_FILE_PAGES?  That way, you don't
>> have to special-case each of the cases below:
> 
> Good point.
> To be consistent I'll also convert NR_ANON_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES to be
> accounted in NR_ANON_PAGES.

Hmm...  I didn't realize we did that for the anonymous version.  But,
looking at the meminfo code:

> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>                 K(global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)
>                   + global_page_state(NR_ANON_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGES) *
>                   HPAGE_PMD_NR),
> #else
>                 K(global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)),
> #endif

That #ifdef and a couple others like it would just go away if we did
this.  It would be a nice cleanup.
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